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Further Forward Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$313k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$842kEducation$596kHuman Services$217kFood & Nutrition$150kEmployment$120kHealth$52kAnimals$45kEnvironment$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$18,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRODODILE RIVER MUSIC$100,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$37,000
FIVESPARKS$25,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON$20,000
OASIS OF PEACE$18,000
BOSTON MINERAL CLUB$18,000
SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION$15,000
RURAL AMERICA INITIATIVE$10,000
CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY$10,000
THE HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$10,000
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
THE WILEY NETWORK$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $20k → 16%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $70k → 11%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 8%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION: $70k → 11%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
KY
MD
DC
HI
LA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
28

Total granted

$1.3M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+35%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentEmploymentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $240k · revenue +20%
  • AC
    AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $140k · revenue +2%
  • JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • HU
    HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
  • BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +57%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
7
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
11
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…At-Risk Youth MentoringLand Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsNative Hawaiian Community D…Community FoundationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Food Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Arts OrganizationsJewish Community Federations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%16%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr14%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,311

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION — $100,000 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF R…LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 · OtherLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INCWHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 · OtherWHITNEY MUSEUM OF ARTFIVESPARKS — $63,000 · OtherFIVESPARKSOASIS OF PEACE — $54,000 · OtherOASIS OF PEACEMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF ARTMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $45,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $42,000 · OtherNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC — $33,000 · Other+26 more — $301,000 · Other+26 moreBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $427,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYTHE WILY NETWORK — $27,500 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORKSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $18,000 · EducationCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC — $240,000 · Arts & CultureCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC …FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMER…BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF AR…HARVARD CULTURAL COLLABORATIVE — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $36,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $120,000 · EmploymentJEWISH VO…THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $75,000 · EmploymentTHE GROUN…AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN C…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSOMERVILL…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $18,000 · Food & NutritionCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $6,000 · Food & NutritionHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Animals
Other$853,000Education$472,500Arts & Culture$454,000Employment$195,000Human Services$188,000Food & Nutrition$59,000Animals$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $427,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCROCODILE RIVER MUSIC INC — $240,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $140,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC — $33,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK — $27,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIAS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Heritage Association — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…Liberty Mutual Founda…Analog Devices Founda…Fidelity FoundationWellington Management…The Pfizer Foundation…Bushrod H Campbell & …Cambridge Savings Cha…
Boston Foundation IncMA22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Wellington Management Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Further Forward Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Harvard Cultural Collaborative — 3% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Crocodile River Music Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines